"Everything I've written about is the truth as I recall it," he said after the launch. "Some people won't like it and I suppose that's the nature of sport, it brings people together but can also prove very divisive at certain times.
"Some people said I was talking nonsense when I said I was going to write this book but I've always felt that if you're going to do something, you have to believe in it fully," he said. "There's no point being at something unless you believe in it. This book represents my passions, and many other peoples, over the past four decades."
"What Mick Carty has done in this book is similar to what great men like PJ McCall and Dick Lambert done before him, the chronicling of our local area, customs and characters," he said. "It's great to see larger than life members of our community who have passed on, like Frank Jordan, being recorded here. I'm sure that fifty years from now, elderly men and women will gather around battered old c
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